* News: Move towards 'more detailed' hospital performance indicators* Features: Is small government best for society?* Comment: There's no place like a council home to damage your health, says Clare Allan

Welcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk

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Today's top story - Britain ignoring dementia crisis, says study

Disease costs Britain more than cancer and heart disease combined but receives a fraction of research funding

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MORE NEWS

* NHS: Move towards 'more detailed' hospital performance indicators

Proposals from the health watchdog seen as a way of picking up failings earlier than the ratings scheme

Louise Perrett says she was advised at the Border Agency office in Cardiff to refuse difficult asylum claims

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FEATURES AND COMMENT

* Public services policy: Is small government best for society?

David Cameron says rolling back big government would allow society to work better. But Sweden offers a different view. Gwladys Fouché reports from Malmö

* Mental health: There's no place like a council home to damage your health

Clare Allan wonders how many social work hours the local authority might free up by sorting out its repairs department

* Equality: 'You don't have to be Sir or Lady So-and-so to be on a public body'

Jane Dudman talks to playwright Bonnie Greer about her role as deputy chair of the British Museum

* Prisons and probation: We do offer drug addicts treatment in prison

We've listened to them, and now half of crack users achieve abstinence within six months, says Paul Hayes

* Communities: Residents join forces to feed themselves

With two fields, some pigs, chickens and community spirit, a Hampshire village is organising to defy supermarkets and become self-sufficient

* Local government: Mr easyCouncil defends his local government model

The architect of the 'easyCouncil' model - the possible blueprint for local government under the Tories - explains to Hélène Mulholland why it is more than just providing public services without the trimmings

* Mental health: Fightback over claims on mental illness and its prevalence among black people

Campaigners are worried by the government's latest mental health strategy and the exploitation of research on schizophrenia by the far-right